Yesterday afternoon, the stretch of Ross from North Hawkins to Pavilion temporarily became a pedestrian oasis of sorts as cars slowed into a narrowed traffic pattern, bike paths ran alongside car lanes and a marketplace island replaced the center lanes of one area, as Robert dispatched yesterday. Visitors enjoyed crepes,…
Alexi Ogando has suddenly produced three consecutive outings of five innings or less. Fourth outfielder David Murphy just went 1 of 9 to drop his average to .233. And the Rangers have lost 12 of their last 19 — including 3-3 on a homestand against the Astros and Mets — in…
Friend of Unfair Park PeterK directs our attention to Cartoon Brew, which sends us to the Howard Lowery auction site — where you’ll find the drawing you see above, made in the mid-1920s at North Dallas High School by none other than Frederick Bean Avery, otherwise known as Taylor-born Tex…
At 10 this morning at the Meyerson Symphony Center, Mike Rawlings officially becomes Dallas mayor, and Dwaine Caraway goes back to being just one of 14 council members who must travel sans security detail. Shortly after that, more than likely, Pauline Medrano will ascend to the title of mayor pro…
Speaking of the innocent spending time behind bars …Meet Hilliard Fields. On August 27, 1997, Fields, who was then in his mid-20s, told prosecutors he was guilty of sexually assaulting a minor. Fields was also facing an unrelated drug charge, and authorities told him: Look, just plead guilty to both…
Tomorrow, we’ll have much more from the Build a Better Boulevard event presently slowing traffic along a stretch of Ross near and into downtown; maybe I’ll even let Leslie run the photo she took of me submerged into the dumpster swimming pool parked in Fellowship Church’s lot at Ross and…
“It’s an Everyman’s story. It’s the story of someone slipping through the cracks — if you like, a nonfiction Twilight Zone episode.” That was filmmaker Errol Morris talking, in 1988, about his documentary The Thin Blue Line — otherwise known as the film that proved Randall Dale Adams did not…
A couple of months back, Friend of Unfair Park Bob wrote: “Waiting patiently for you to find and post a Replacements performance in Dallas. I think there was only one, yes?” But as we ascertained, no, there were several, from a Theatre Gallery gig to that unfortunate and wildly disinterested…
Several times now we’ve sneak-peeked the Build a Better Boulevard Challenge set to debut along Ross Avenue, between Hawkins and Pavilion, this Sunday morning beginning at 11. Preparations are underway at this very moment, as teams of architects and planners and students begin building their better bus stops and outdoor…
Finally, a dream comes true.For far too long now we’ve talked about screening RoboCop somewhere in downtown, preferably outside, definitely near one of the myriad landmarks featured in the film set in “Detroit” but shot entirely in Dallas in the summer and early fall of 1986. (Ah, yes, I remember…
Around lunchtime yesterday, Dawn Rizos was walking through The Lodge, the Spangler Road strip club she owns, when her adult daughter handed her a freshly printed-out copy of this Texas Tribune story. Supporters of the so-called “Pole Tax,” a five-dollar fee tacked on to every visit to a strip club,…
I just went over to the city’s bids website to look for something unrelated when I noticed: The deadline for would-be Love Field vendors to submit proposals for restaurants and retail shoppes has been extended yet again — this time to July 13, following an earlier add-on that had ’em…
In April director Morgan Spurlock came to the Dallas International Film Festival to show his sponsored-from-start-to-finish documentary The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, after which he and I engaged in a little post-screening Q&A at the Magnolia. During our chitchat, I asked him about a sequence in the film concerning budget-beleaguered…
On its Facebook page this morning, the Dallas Police Department has posted an estimable visual history of its squad cars, beginning with the 1928 Model A. My father, a parts man his whole life, could do without the AMC Matador, wishes he had the ’56 Fairlane pictured above and is…
Being fairly new to town, I’m learning my Dallas history little by little. Yesterday was a good step: On the way home I stopped by the Hall of State at Fair Park, where Al Lipscomb is resting comfortably till this evening’s public wake, which begins at 6 p.m., and tomorrow’s…
Technically, I guess, that’d be Plano — if we’re talking about Gearbox, which CBS Evening News’s Mark Strassmann does in the piece that aired last night and follows after the jump. And Grapevine, since he mentions GameStop. And Mesquite, if we’re talking about id … though Strassman never mentions the…
All at once the in-box filled up with releases from the Environmental Protection Agency, both the national HQ and the regional offices. Long story short: After a series of public hearings held last year, including this one in Arlington, the EPA has decided to go ahead and take a long,…
This just in from Dallas City Hall: One week after last week’s Dallas Mavericks victory parade rolled from the Dallas Convention Center to the American Airlines Center, the city’s done totaled up the receipts and is ready to submit an invoice to Mark Cuban, who said he’s happy to pay…
A little while ago the city’s Park and Rec Department posted to its Hike & Bike Trails Facebook page the photo you see above. It was accompanied by the note: “Check out the new addition to the Trinity Forest Trail — a new trail bridge was just added this week!…
As we noted just last month, a group of parents with kids at the First Presbyterian Church Developmental Day School on St. Paul are upset that a permanent supportive housing project (PSH) for the chronically homeless may be going up next door to the school. They’re especially concerned that parts…
Remember when Dwaine Caraway gave Michael Vick a key to the city of Dallas and everyone got outraged and then-Mayor Tom Leppert had the city clamp down on who had access to the prize closet and Caraway said but look, man, I did it for the children? Yeah. Good times…
It wasn’t even two years ago that the Texas DMV enlisted a private contractor to design vanity license plates for the state’s drivers, one of the first such partnerships in the country. But after 18 months of the contractor throwing just about anything you could think of on Texas bumpers,…
